Safety Matters

Safety is a guiding principle at Arch Coal. Our top priority is making sure that every miner returns home safe and healthy at the end of every shift. For the most recent calendar year (2007), Arch’s safety incident rate of 1.02 was three times better than the industry average of 3.31 lost-time injuries per 200,000 employee-hours. (Source: MSHA Coal Controlling Report, MSHA Mine Injury and Worktime)

Arch Coal's Mines Achieve Nation's Best Underground Safety Record For Two Consecutive Years, Earning MSHA Sentinels of Safety Award in 2006 and 2007

Our commitment to safety is reflected in dozens of awards for excellence. For example, in 2007 Arch's Cumberland River Band Mill Mine earned the nation’s top safety honor among all large underground coal mines in the U.S., the Mine Safety and Health Administration's Sentinels of Safety Award. Band Mill employees worked more than 178,000 hours without a single reportable injury. And in 2006 Arch’s Skyline operation in Utah MSHA’s Sentinels of Safety Award. Skyline employees completed more than 500,000 employee-hours without a single reportable or lost-time injury.

>> View Arch’s recent safety awards list